žralok
Czech edit
Etymology edit
Coined by Jan Svatopluk Presl based on Polish żarłok (“glutton”). Analyzable as žral + -ok. From žrát (“eat”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
žralok m anim (related adjective žraločí)
- shark
- the separation of the sole from the front of a shoe or boot (that makes the front of the shoe look like the open mouth of a shark)
- Zakopl jsem o obrubník a teď mám na botě žraloka. ― I tripped on the curb and ripped the sole off of the front of my shoe. (literally, “…and now there's a shark on my shoe.”)
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Further reading edit
Slovak edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
žralok m anim (genitive singular žraloka, nominative plural žraloky, genitive plural žralokov, declension pattern of chlap)
Declension edit
Declension of žralok
Further reading edit
- “žralok”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024